Kathryn Williams

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Kathryn Williams is a British, Mercury music prize-nominated singer-songwriter. With 17
albums under her belt in the last 27 years, her last solo album, Night Drives debuted at #2 in
the official folk album charts, while her last album, a collaboration with Withered hand titled
Willson Williams was nominated for the SAY and AMA awards. Label One Little Independent
celebrated her career (thus far) with a 20-CD and 2-book box set, Anthology, strewn with her
artwork.

Her novel The Ormering Tide debuted to critical acclaim, and she also hosts her own
popular podcast, Before the Light Goes Out, which appeared in the Top Ten best music
podcasts by the Guardian. Kathryn tutors at the Arvon and Moniack Mhor Foundations, and
writes with many diverse artists around the world including Paul Weller, Chris Difford, Ed
Harcourt, Beth Nielsen Chapman, and Michele Stodart. She is the only female included in
the Top Ten list of Greatest Liverpool songwriters of all time.

Her latest album, MYSTERY PARK will be released this Autumn.


2021 finally sees the reemergence of British folk’s most enigmatic lost son. You may recognize Matt Deighton from his time fronting Acid Jazz heroes Mother Earth; you may remember him as Paul Weller’s guitarist in the late 90’s, or Noel Gallagher’s recommendation for who should replace him when he quit the European tour in 2000. Or maybe you don’t. For almost two decades, the man they keep calling the natural successor to Nick Drake, Davey Graham and John Martyn has been himself more of a rumour – a murmur among musicians, songwriters and diehard music lovers who proudly display his rare vinyl releases like trophies. The list of articles in the press and online has continued unabated, forever asking the same question: Where is Matt Deighton? As the Huffington Post discovered in their recent piece ‘The Resurrection of Matt Deighton’: He’s back. He’s been back a couple of times, and you missed him.